SpaceX Launch Schedule
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 24, 2021, 6:58 a.m.
Status: To Be Confirmed
Mission: Robotic Exploration
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor. DART is a planetary defense-driven test of one of the technologies for preventing the Earth impact of a hazardous asteroid: the kinetic impactor. DART’s primary objective is to demonstrate a kinetic impact on a small asteroid. The binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos is the target for DART. While Didymos’ primary body is approximately 800 meters across, its secondary body (or “moonletâ€) has a 150-meter size, which is more typical of the size of asteroids that could pose a more common hazard to Earth. The DART spacecraft will achieve the kinetic impact by deliberately crashing itself into the moonlet at a speed of approximately 6 km/s, with the aid of an onboard camera and sophisticated autonomous navigation software. The collision will change the speed of the moonlet in its orbit around the main body by a fraction of one percent, enough to be measured using telescopes on Earth.
Heliocentric N/A B1063 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 4Falcon 9 Block 5 | Spaceflight GTO-2
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dedicated SSO Rideshare Mission 3
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 1, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-24
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Dec. 4, 2021, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Resupply
SpaceX will launch the cargo variant of its Dragon 2 spacecraft on their 24th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Dragon will be filled with supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
Low Earth OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-85
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 31, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-87
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 31, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | WorldView Legion 1 & 2
SpaceX | USAVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 31, 2021, midnight
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Intelsat 40e
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 series satellite
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Status: To Be Determined
Mission: Communications
The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
Geostationary Transfer OrbitFalcon 9 Block 5 | Nilesat-301
SpaceX | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Jan. 1, 2022, midnight
Long March 6
KL-Beta
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaThe KL-Beta A and B, satellites are test satellites for a global multimedia satellite system for the German company KLEO Connect and the Chinese comp…
Hyperbola-1
Jilin-1 Mofang-01A (?)
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaNew generation experimental Earth imaging satellite for the Jilin-1 constellation. NOTE: Payload identity unconfirmed.
MOMO v1
Flight 6
Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, Japan - Taiki-cho, Hokkaido, JapanDespite the MOMO unit's number, this is the seventh flight of the sounding rocket. Company aims to reach space for the third time.
Ariane 5 ECA
Star One D2 & Eutelsat Quantum
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaStar One D2 is a 6.2 tons satellite built by Space Systems Loral for operator Star One, subsidiary of Brazilian Embratel. Its architecture is based o…
Electron
STP-27RM (It’s a Little Chile Up Here)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandA U.S. Air Force experimental spacecraft. It will demonstrate the use of a deployable sensor, where the sensor’s mass is a substantial fraction of th…
Long March 2D
Tianhui-1-04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTH 1 (Tianhui-1 = "Sky drawing") is a Chinese stereo-topographic mapping satellite operated by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The satellites …
Proton-M
MLM Nauka
200/39 (200L) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanNauka (which means "Science" in Russian), also known as Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), is a new module of the russian segment of the ISS. It w…
New Shepard
NS-16
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USAFirst crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
Long March 2
Yaogan-30-10
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaNOTE: Payload identity not confirmed. The Yaogan-30 is a series of military remote sensing satellites which are launched in triplets. The satellit…
SpaceShipTwo
VSS Unity 22
Spaceport America - Air launch to Suborbital flightPowered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.
